Journal Supplement, Text of Senate Bill No. 11, Regular Session as Amended by Senate Bill No. 7, First Called Session, Sixty-Second Legislature, State of Texas, 1971 Page: 4
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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None of the funds appropriated above may be expended on water
quality activities except in cooperation with the Water Quality Board.
A program of non-accredited and accredited training of departmental
employees and others in cooperative public health activities is autho-
rized from funds herein appropriated in order to keep such individuals
abreast of current trends and developments in public health. Such costs
may include necessary travel, registration fees, tuition and stipends.
It is also provided that official travel by departmental emplovc s
to attend organized meetings outside the boundaries of the State of
Texas, shall be authorized in advance by the Commissioner of Health and
a copy of such authorization shall be on file and shall state the reason
such travel was necessary to the departmental program.
Any money paid into the State Treasury by the Department of Health,
either by mistake of fact or by mistake of law, shall be refunded by
warrant issued against the fund in the State Treasury into which such
money was deposited, and so much for said refunds as is necessary i,
hereby appropriated.
Milk inspectors required to inspect out-of-state dairies, milk
receiving stations and milk plants under provisions of Senate Bill No.
217, Fifty-seventh Legislature, Regular Session, shall be considered as
traveling to points not served by airlines and shall receive mileage and
per diem as provided by this Act. It is further provided that all fees
collected by the Department of Health under the provisions of Senate
Bill No. 437, Sixtieth Legislature, Regular Session, are hereby appro-
priated to the Department for the fiscal years covered by this Act, to be
expended to implement the program authorized by Senate Pill No. 437.
The Department of Health is hereby authorized to operate, or to have
operated, a cafeteria in its state headquarters building in Austin,
Texas.
From funds herein appropriated, the State Health Department shall
continue programs for prevention and amelioration of mental retardation
except such functions as were previously vested in the office of Mfntal
Health Planning and the Division of Mental Health, and a minimum of
$72,600 is included in the appropriations hereinabove for continuation
of the PRO testing program.
Any of the appropriations made hereinabove may be expended in a
coordinated regional program provided that there be no decrease in the
funding levels of programs established above. Any available space in the
chest hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Health Department may
be used in a coordinated public health regional program.
Out of the appropriations made hereinabove from the General Revenue
Fund, the State Health Department shall allocate one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) per fiscal year or as much thereof as may be neces-
sary to the cystic fibrosis program.
Funds appropriated above for salaries of classified positions may
be expended to employ personnel in only those classified position titles
listed in Article V of this Act or in such other positions established
and approved by the State Classification Officer for use by the Depart-
ment. It is further provided that amendments to class specifications
for classified positions used hv the Department may be made when neces-
sary to comply with Federal standard-. for a merit system of personnel
administration. such amendments shall not change the pay group deria-
nated for the clars specifications so amended. Salary adjustments with-
in designated salary ranl'- fer departmental employees shall be gov rnod
by acreoment s with t he Foderal government pursun'rt to Federal standards
for a merit system of per-onnrl administration.TT-u
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